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agility, and working towards strategic objectives. Managers work together to set strategy, priorities, and policies, determine resource allocation, manage performance and coach individual staff on their career goals, and measure results. View Details

05 Nov 2001
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Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

financier, a public stock offering, or some other source. But potential investors often greet entrepreneurs' business plans with skepticism, or worse, turn them down entirely. Alternatively, some investors demand a large equity stake in the View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: India

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

Resources Company Analysis and Financing Company profiles on project sponsors Financial fundamentals for valuation Executive bios Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue View Details

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Field Course: Startup Operations Studio (SOS) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Startup Operations Studio (SOS) Course Number 6675 Senior Lecturer Julia Austin Spring; Q3Q4; 1.5 credits Two-hour sessions meet every other Tuesday from 3:10-5:10 Project Application Only - Students... View Details

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Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making Course Number 2236 Associate Professor Joshua Schwartzstein Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Project Course Description Effective managers need sound judgment to... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program

a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s team created a... View Details

Keywords: University Collaborations; MS/MBA

01 Dec 2014
News

Five Degrees of Doriot

also played a role in launching the world’s largest software maker: Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote their first PC software using a DEC computer. (Library of Congress) Body armor While serving in World War II, Doriot was tasked with heading a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
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Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future

presentation focused on current construction projects and plans for the future of the campus. By the end of the afternoon, we volunteers — nearly one hundred altogether, spanning classes from 1935 to 2000 — felt well informed. At dinner,... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; alumni; volunteers; conferences; cases; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2007
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Winter Break Just Got Educational

Professor David Collis, and Harvard China scholar Professor William Kirby accompanied the group. The New Orleans Service Immersion, January 3–13, involved forty-five HBS students, faculty, and staff, who devoted their time to education, redevelopment, and rebuilding... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

18 Jan 2021
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How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

he has learned during his years in public service: Officials don’t cut projects loose when they are failing, nor do they scale projects when they are succeeding. “Anybody who has ever been close to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

Academy of Management Journal Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-clearing Across Difficult Terrain By: Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—How do teams working on complex View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

development, fluid teams of individuals with different sets of experience are tasked with projects that are critical to the success of their organizations. Although building teams from individuals with diverse prior experience is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

the initial revenue projection for virtual Executive Education programming in fiscal 2021 was penciled in at what seemed like a realistic expectation: $0. But with the entire School community coming together, HBS adapted. Driven by... View Details

May 20, 2016
Comment

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

By: John A. Quelch

When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short. It has not provided prompt and clear leadership to the world in combating either the Ebola or Zika viruses. Its leadership has been low energy, its representatives... View Details

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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks - Course Catalog

the level of individual actors. What are the core tools and skills for analysis of green and healthy buildings, sustainable infrastructure, large project finance, and public private partnerships? How do legacy and new cities realize both... View Details

16 Mar 2017
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Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer

the cancer problem around the world. Our projections are that by 2030, 15 million people a year will be dying of cancer. So that’s the problem we’re dealing with. “The opportunity we’re dealing with is that, actually, we’re making... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed

Community Partners program has seen more than one hundred volunteers tackle consulting projects ranging from strategic planning to marketing to technology management. Aside from offering alumni an opportunity to try their hand at... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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New Idea: State of the Art

experience. Massive, high-resolution touchscreen tables let visitors call up and manipulate images from its entirely digitized collection. The Immersion Room (pictured above) allows users to select different wallpapers from an extensive digital collection and View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Adobe; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

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Lindsay Steinmetz

different areas of social enterprise through my current role at the Ford Foundation. How has HBS prepared you for your current role and your longterm career? HBS prepared me to know the questions to ask to understand an organization, identify a barrier to change, View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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